(Charles Coates for Lotus F1)
The Lotus F1 Team's Romain Grosjean has confirmed that he is interested in victories and not the love of the Enstone based outfit when it comes to deciding where he will drive in 2015. The Franco-Swiss driver who has been with the team since returning to Formula One in 2012 is out of contract at the end of the season and has had a suffered a difficult 2014 season having scored just eight points so far in 2014 following an extremely impressive 2013 campaign.
Last season Grosjean scored six podiums on his way to seventh place in the Driver's championship following a difficult return to the sport in 2012 which resulted in a one race ban as he failed to start the 2012 Italian Grand Prix after causing a first corner crash at the Belgian Grand Prix that year.
Since then however, Grosjean's stock has risen in Formula One and he has now emerged as one of the top talents and most highly rated driver's in the sport.
Although the Lotus F1 Team are expected to switch to a supply of Mercedes power units next season the outfit are yet to confirm what they will do next season and with s potential race seat available at McLaren next season with neither Jenson Button nor Kevin Magnussen guaranteed a seat with the team next season Grosjean could head to Woking which if it was to happen he would once again team up with former Lotus team principal Eric Boullier who joined McLaren earlier this year as their new Racing Director.
It is going to be interesting to see what happens next season in relation to the driver market and whatever McLaren decide to do they will be looking for experienced drivers as they begin a new long-term agreement with Honda who will return to Formula One as a power unit supplier for the first time since leaving the sport at the ed of the 2008 season.
© Ben Johnston 2014
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